Set Reminder2024-06-08 12:00:002024-06-08 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Magicana: Featuring the Collection of Peter Hackhofer https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/magicana-featuring-the-collection-of-peter-hackhofer-21905 This sale will highlight selected material from the collection of the late Peter Hackhofer. Built up over several decades as a dealer and seeker of the unusual, his holdings included an extensive library, unusual stone lithographs from the great illusion shows of yesteryear, and art of all types with a magic theme.
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[MAGIC & ALLIED ARTS]. Group of 8 volumes in original and decorative cloth bindings. Including: SACHS, Edwin. Sleight of Hand. London: L. Upcott Gill, [1885]. Second, and greatly enlarged, edition. MORLEY, Henry. Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair. London: Chatto & Windus, 1880. A New Edition?-- DOWNS, T. Nelson. Modern Coin Manipulation. London, 1900. ? NEIL, C. Lang. The Modern Conjurer. London: Hamley Brothers and C. Arthur Pearson, 1903. In the uncommon binding with Neil misspelled on the spine. ? GREENWOOD, James. Silas the Conjurer. London and New York: Ward, Lock, and Co., (ca. 1885). ? and three others. All 8vos, generally with illustrations, gilt or pictorial gilt cloth. Some rubbed or shaken; condition generally good or better.